But most men regard their life as a poem that women threaten.
ALAN BENNETTSometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it’s now or never.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
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To begin with, it’s true, she read with trepidation and some unease.
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The majority of people perform well in a crisis and when the spotlight is on them; it’s on the Sunday afternoons of this life, when nobody is looking, that the spirit falters.
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Deluded liberal that I am, I persist in thinking that those with a streak of sexual unorthodoxy ought to be more tolerant of their fellows than those who lead an entirely godly, righteous and sober life.
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Books generally just confirm you in what you have, perhaps unwittingly, decided to do already.
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That’s a bit like asking a man crawling across the Sahara whether he would prefer Perrier or Malvern water.
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We have fish and chips, which W. and I fetch from the shop in Settle market-place.
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Nor did they seem to think one had done them a kindness by reading their writings. Rather they had done one the kindness by writing them.
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Kafka could never have written as he did had he lived in a house.
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You go to a book to have your convictions corroborated.
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One reads for pleasure…it is not a public duty.
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If, for instance, we’d made the film after the show had been to Broadway, it would have been exactly the same film but we would have been assured that they would have understood it.
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If I had to sum up my work, I suppose that’s it really: I’m taking the pith out of reality.
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Schweitzer in the Congo did not derive more moral credit than Larkin did for living in Hull.
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If you find yourself born in Barnsley and then set your sights on being Virginia Woolf it is not going to be roses all the way.
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